Population below $3.1 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $3.1 a day at 2005 international prices. As a result of revisions in PPP exchange rates, poverty rates for individual countries cannot be compared with poverty rates reported in earlier editions.
| 1990 | 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| China | 93.30 | 50.70 | 34.90 | 29.70 | 25.70 | 17.00 | 14.00 | 10.90 | 8.70 | 7.70 | 5.70 | 3.20 | 1.70 | 0.30 | |||
| Russian Federation | 12.60 | 4.30 | 0.70 | 0.50 | 0.50 | 0.40 | 0.80 | 0.80 | 0.80 | 0.80 | 0.40 | 0.50 | 0.30 | 0.40 | |||
| Brazil | 41.80 | 22.70 | 12.20 | 10.70 | 9.60 | 8.80 | 9.40 | 10.80 | 11.10 | 11.00 | 10.90 | 5.40 | 11.50 | 8.50 | 7.50 | ||
| India | 57.70 | 23.90 | |||||||||||||||
| South Africa | 59.30 | 56.20 | 42.80 | 44.50 |